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She left the island to find a bigger life. She never expected it would lead her back to him.

When her grandfather collapses, Cora Mercer abandons her carefully built life in Raleigh and catches the last ferry home to Wrenhaven Island—the wild barrier island she swore she’d never return to. But home isn’t the same place she left behind. Her...

She gave herself one year to not fall in love. He’s spent fifteen trying not to tell her he already has.

For three years, Marin Mercer has run the Mercer Inn like a fortress. After her marriage ended, she closed its doors to weddings, filled its rooms with everyone else’s happiness, and quietly stopped expecting any of her own. One year — that...

Wren Mercer has spent her whole life learning to leave first. This summer, a windswept island is about to give her every reason to stay.

Wren left Wrenhaven Island years ago and swore she’d never come back. A wedding photographer who keeps a bag packed by the door, she has spent her life safe behind the camera — because the person in the picture...

For ten years, June Mercer has run toward every disaster but her own. What happens when coming home is the bravest thing she’s ever had to do?

June has spent a decade as a relief nurse, deploying into floods and famines on three continents — the kind of woman who can be wheels-up to a disaster zone in a day, because holding still has always...

Four sisters. One island. A faith — and a love — worth coming home to.

Off the coast of North Carolina, past the last stop the ferry makes, lies Wrenhaven Island — a windswept ribbon of dune and salt marsh where a herd of wild horses still runs free, descended from the survivors of a long-ago shipwreck. For generations the Mercer family has been...

Hollywood Made Them Stars. God Made Them Something Better.

They met freshman year at Blackwell Institute for the Dramatic Arts — four women, one impossible deadline, and the kind of instant connection that rewrites the rest of your life.

Fifteen years later, Hadley is a celebrated showrunner walking away from a twenty-million-dollar deal....

She found someone else’s love story pressed between the pages. She wasn’t supposed to start living her own.

Briar Langston has spent seven years building a quiet life in Cedarwick, Georgia — running a used bookstore in a building that was once the town’s lending library, reading her Bible in the corner chair every morning, and telling herself...

A jury summons with the wrong name. A town she was never supposed to find. A secret she has carried for five years.

Celia Hale keeps her life small on purpose. A tidy apartment in Roanoke. A freelance bookkeeping practice. A routine so precise it leaves no room for questions she cannot answer.

Then a jury summons arrives at her door — addressed...

She recognized the handwriting on the envelope. Every letter. Every stroke. The small foot on the J, the crossed seven, the forward slant she had spent fifteen years perfecting.

The problem was, she didn’t write it

When Portland calligrapher Maren Sutherland finds a wedding RSVP in her mailbox addressed in her own hand — for a bride she has never...

Some letters arrive exactly where the Lord meant them to.

A confession written in pen and mailed for twelve years into silence. A wedding RSVP returned to the wrong sender in familiar handwriting. An old love letter forgotten inside a library book. A note tucked into a sympathy bouquet that ends up at the wrong front door.

Every book in the ...